cgroup: delay the clearing of cgrp->kn->priv
Run these two scripts concurrently:
for ((; ;))
{
mkdir /cgroup/sub
rmdir /cgroup/sub
}
for ((; ;))
{
echo $$ > /cgroup/sub/cgroup.procs
echo $$ > /cgroup/cgroup.procs
}
A kernel bug will be triggered:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000038
IP: [<c10bbd69>] cgroup_put+0x9/0x80
...
Call Trace:
[<c10bbe19>] cgroup_kn_unlock+0x39/0x50
[<c10bbe91>] cgroup_kn_lock_live+0x61/0x70
[<c10be3c1>] __cgroup_procs_write.isra.26+0x51/0x230
[<c10be5b2>] cgroup_tasks_write+0x12/0x20
[<c10bb7b0>] cgroup_file_write+0x40/0x130
[<c11aee71>] kernfs_fop_write+0xd1/0x160
[<c1148e58>] vfs_write+0x98/0x1e0
[<c114934d>] SyS_write+0x4d/0xa0
[<c16f656b>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x12
We clear cgrp->kn->priv in the end of cgroup_rmdir(), but another
concurrent thread can access kn->priv after the clearing.
We should move the clearing to css_release_work_fn(). At that time
no one is holding reference to the cgroup and no one can gain a new
reference to access it.
v2:
- move RCU_INIT_POINTER() into the else block. (Tejun)
- remove the cgroup_parent() check. (Tejun)
- update the comment in css_tryget_online_from_dir().
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.15+
Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 50b9411..bf30076 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4396,6 +4396,15 @@
/* cgroup release path */
cgroup_idr_remove(&cgrp->root->cgroup_idr, cgrp->id);
cgrp->id = -1;
+
+ /*
+ * There are two control paths which try to determine
+ * cgroup from dentry without going through kernfs -
+ * cgroupstats_build() and css_tryget_online_from_dir().
+ * Those are supported by RCU protecting clearing of
+ * cgrp->kn->priv backpointer.
+ */
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(*(void __rcu __force **)&cgrp->kn->priv, NULL);
}
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
@@ -4834,16 +4843,6 @@
cgroup_kn_unlock(kn);
- /*
- * There are two control paths which try to determine cgroup from
- * dentry without going through kernfs - cgroupstats_build() and
- * css_tryget_online_from_dir(). Those are supported by RCU
- * protecting clearing of cgrp->kn->priv backpointer, which should
- * happen after all files under it have been removed.
- */
- if (!ret)
- RCU_INIT_POINTER(*(void __rcu __force **)&kn->priv, NULL);
-
cgroup_put(cgrp);
return ret;
}
@@ -5430,7 +5429,7 @@
/*
* This path doesn't originate from kernfs and @kn could already
* have been or be removed at any point. @kn->priv is RCU
- * protected for this access. See cgroup_rmdir() for details.
+ * protected for this access. See css_release_work_fn() for details.
*/
cgrp = rcu_dereference(kn->priv);
if (cgrp)
